Motherboard trigger lights going off on my first build. What do i Rma??

[Mwinfree07]

I'm building my first computer after a long time of deciding what i wanted on a budget. I went with msi 970a carbon gaming (blah blah blah) Mobo and a fx8370 CPU. After getting everything hooked up, the "EZ trigger lights" went off saying that basically nothing was working. I read in the Mobo manuel that if all of the lights go off at the same time then that means that the CPU failed or is not being recognized. I wanted to check here first to see if maybe the mobo would be bad. If everything turned on and the lights and fans came on, but no screen came up would that be a bad cpu or bad mobo? Or could it even just be a combo of both the two not being compatible? Can anyone help?

Set up
-AMD fx8370
-MSI 970a carbon gaming motherboard
-Corsair rm750x
-16gb hyperx ddr3 ram
-Sapphire GPU
-crucial SSD

 

[izoli]

You need to immediately place your PC in a safe space

 

[izoli]

Assuming you have all cables plugged in? Cpu power cable

 

[JustEthan]

disconnect everything. EVERYTHING. Take a;; the ram out except one stick in ram slot 4 (the closest one to the cpu) plug the 8 pin cpu cable into the mobo and the 24 pin and that is it. See if it posts. If it does then one by one plug things in and after everything you plug in check to see if it posts before plugging the next thing in. When/if you plug something in and it doesn't post that's the ptoblem. That's for the most extensive problems, if it posts with one stick of ram and just the mobo plugged in then after that just make sure everything is plugged in properly. Always pull the power cable from the psu and ground yourself to the chassis of your case and hold the power button down for at least ten seconds before unplugging and plugging anything back in.